The Bass Flute
By Crystal M. Stroman and
Britney Jones
What is the Full Name of Your
Instrument?
• Bass Flute
Are there any other names for your
instrument maybe in a different
language or in a different culture?
• Japanese FluteShinobue (left)
• Chinese Flute- Dizi
• Korean FluteDaegum
• Slovakian FluteFuyara
• The Native American
Flute
What family of instruments does it
belong to?
• Flute Family
Which section of the band does it
belong to? Woodwind, Brass,
Percussion?
• Woodwinds!!!
When was your instrument first
invented/discovered/used?
• The transverse flute was the last of all flutes to
be invented. Probably it was first built by
nomads in central Asia. It travelled to Europe
together with goats and sheep.
• The very first flutes of prehistoric ages were
made of animal bones.
• The earliest picture on which a flute is clearly to
be seen is an etruscian relief from near Perusa.
It was made in the second or first century b. c.
Pictures of very, very old versions
of my instrument.
When was the modern form of your
instrument discovered or invented?
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1832 Theobald Boehm finally
developed a completely new flute.
Almost nothing stayed the same.
Instead of wood he used metal, the
thickness of the tubes wall, the
number, dimension and arrangement
of the holes even the mouth-hole were
modified by him. Despite critics (first of
all tulou) at the beginning, the new
instrument succeeded at last. It finally
gained acceptance when in 1860
Dorus got the chair at the Paris
conservatory.
The model of 1832 was a flute with
ring keys. The holes for the keys were
exclusively placed by acoustical
experiments. As not all of them could
be reached with the fingers, the
instrument was supplied with a
completely new key work. This first
prototype still had a cylindric
headjoint, the conical drilling starting
only from the middle joint.
Who is credited for inventing the
modern version of your instrument?
• Born at the 9th of
april 1794 in Munich,
being the oldest of 11
children of the
goldsmith Karl
Friedrich Böhm
• Died on the 25th of
november 1881 in
Munich
Name some famous performers
who play your instrument.
Julius Baker
Lori Bell
Jeanne Baxtresser
William Bennet
Name some important works of
music that were composed
specifically for your instrument.
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Fur Elise -Beethoven
Air on a G String -JS Bach
Badinerie -JS Bach
Brazilian Bombshell -Frank Naylor
The Entertainer -Scott Joplin
Irish Washer Woman -Traditional
What made you choose to play this
instrument?
• Crystal
• I picked the flute
because I thought
that it was pretty
and would be a
nice instrument to
play.
• Britney
• I chose the flute
because it was a very
humble instrument.
Why is your instrument the most
awesome in the band?
• The flute/piccolo is the most AWESOMENESS-NESS instrument in the band
because it is a small package delivering a
BIG Surprise. The flute may be small but it
gives off a high and mighty sound.
REP YO FLUTE…..REP YO FLUTE!!!!
More great pictures of the Bass
Flute
Fun facts that you found while
working on this web quest.
1. The prehistoric flutes were made out of
bones.
2. The flute is made in the form of an open
cylindrical air column about 66 cm long
3. A flute is a reedless wind instrument that
produces its sound from the flow of air
against an edge.
Website Citation Page
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bass_flute
• http://www.soafluteorchestra.com/images/f
lutes.jpg
• www.flutehistory.com
• http://www.fluteconcerto.com/sheetmusic.h
tml